Monade
Curated by Zarina TAYTS
12 April - 11 May 2024, extended until Saturday 1 June, 2024
Opening Friday 12 April, 2024 from 6 to 10 pm, in presence of the artist and Frédérick Mouraux Gallery.
Exhibition Address: Pourbusstraat, 19 - 2000 ANTWERP - Thursday, Friday, Saturday, 12 - 6 pm.
According to artist Jean-Philippe DUBOSCQ, his exhibition corresponds perfectly, from LEIBNITZ, to the notion of matter overflowing into infinite folds from which the soul draws its clear perceptions as a monad.
The book LE PLI written by Gilles DELEUZE, has accompanied the artist for many years:
The fold has always existed in the arts, but the very essence of the Baroque is to take the fold to infinity. If Leibniz's philosophy is Baroque par excellence, it's because everything folds, unfolds and collapses. His most famous thesis is that of the soul as a "monad" without door or window, which draws all its clear perceptions from a dark background: it can only be confused by analogy with the interior of a Baroque chapel, made of black marble, where light arrives only through openings imperceptible to the observer from within; so the soul is full of obscure folds.
To discover a modern neo-Baroque, we need only follow the history of the infinite fold in all the arts: "fold after fold", with Mallarmé's poetry and Proust's novel, but also Michaux's work, Boulez's music, Hantai's painting. And this neo-Leibnizianism has never ceased to inspire philosophy.
LE PLI, Gilles DELEUZE, published in 1988 by EDITIONS DE MINUIT, Paris
For more information, please contact the gallery : info@frederickmourauxgallery.com / www.frederickmourauxgallery.com
© Jean-Philippe DUBOSCQ
© Jean-Philippe DUBOSCQ
© Jean-Philippe DUBOSCQ
